PROHIBITED FOOD.

Human flesh, beef, horse-flesh, domestic cocks and hens, the parrot, the ´Sárika,* the Mynah, the pigeon, the owl, the vulture, the chameleon, the bustard, the Sáras (Ardea antigone), the Papíha and waterfowl, frogs, snakes, weasels and animals whose toes are joined (web-footed birds): animals that abide in towns, except the goat; the ruddy goose (Anas casarca), the pond-heron (Ardea torra),* dried fish or flesh, five kinds of fish, viz.:—(1). The Rohu, (Cyprinus Rohita). (2). The Patthar Chatá (Stone licker). (3). The Sankara (probably a skate the Raia Sankar). (4). The Rájíva. (5.) The Bárahi:* carnivorous animals, the camel, the elephant, the rhinoceros, the monkey, the various reptiles; all that pro­duces intoxication, camel's milk, mare's milk, and the milk of all animals that divide not the hoof;* goat's and ewe's milk, the milk of forest animals, woman's milk, milk from a cow in the first ten days after calving, milk of a cow whose calf has died, till she calves again; garlic, leeks, carrots, the Sebesten plum (Cordia Sebestena) the produce from unclean land, or food which a man's foot has touched or the hand of a woman in her courses; anything from the house of a courtesan, or a thief, or a carpenter, or a usurer, or a blacksmith, or a polisher, or a goldsmith, or a washerman, or a weaver, or a tanner, or a currier, or a singer or dancer, or an armourer, or a dog keeper, or a seller of spirits, or a physician, or a surgeon, or a hunter, or a eunuch; food set apart or the food of one who has committed the five great sins;* food dressed for offer­ings to the deities, leavings of food of one in mourning during the period of mourning, food of an unchaste woman, cheese and the like that is made of milk,* all food dressed with oil or water and left all night; whatever becomes sour from being left long; food in which hair or insects may have fallen; food eaten without the five ceremonies which are obligatory before meals, as will be now described.

These details are already numerous and what has been said must suffice.